Saying Grace with Sam Baker

Did you hear the interview with singer/songwriter Sam Baker on Fresh Air today? Sam was on a train heading to Machu Picchu in 1986 when he and fellow passengers became the target of a terrorist act. His body was torn apart by a bomb planted by the Peruvian terrorist group Shining Path. As his body healed, the melodies and lyrics began streaming in.

Sam Baker's latest album is 'Say Grace.'

Credit Sam Baker

migrants

it is not that farthe coyote said walk north one dayacross la cabeza prietakeep walking to interstate eightthey walked that daythe nextthe nextthe water ran outone by onethey looked like dried leavesscattered in the sun

oh dear oneswe are lost

it is so far awayfrom the low lands of veracruzto the desert north of sonorawhere they strung out in ones and twosthey got twelve lines in a midwestern paperon the pages with the ads for shoesfourteen men got lost in the desertthey were migrants they gottwelve lines of news